This is a bibliographical index of books and certain other texts related to James Boswell, including all books published as part of the Boswell Yale Editions, other biographies, books written by Boswell during his own lifetime, as well as other books and studies related to James Boswell. Please let us know if you have come across any Boswell Books, not on this list.

Trade edition: Journal
Title Author(s) / Editor(s)
Boswell's London Journal 1762-17631950
 Frederick Albert Pottle
Boswell in Holland 1763-641952
 Frederick Albert Pottle
Boswell on the Grand Tour I, 17641953
 Frederick Albert Pottle
Boswell on the Grand Tour II, 1765-17661955
 Frank Brady, Frederick Albert Pottle
Boswell in Search of a Wife 1766-17691956
 Frank Brady, Frederick Albert Pottle
Boswell for the Defence 1769-17741959
 William K. Wimsatt, Jr., Frederick Albert Pottle
Boswell: The Ominous Years 1774-17761963
 Charles Ryskamp, Frederick Albert Pottle
Boswell in Extremes 1776-17781970
 Charles McC. Weis, Frederick Albert Pottle
Boswell, Laird of Auchinleck 1778-17821977
 Joseph W. Reed, Frederick Albert Pottle
Boswell: The Applause of the Jury 1782-17851981
 Irma S. Lustig, Frederick Albert Pottle
Boswell: The English Experiment 1785-17891986
 Irma S. Lustig, Frederick Albert Pottle
Boswell: The Great Biographer 1789-17951989
 Frank Brady, Marlies K. Danziger
Biography
Title Author(s) / Editor(s)
A Life of James Boswell1999
 Peter Martin
Four Portraits1945
 Peter Quennell
James Boswell1932
 C. E. Vulliamy
James Boswell: The Earlier Years 1740-17691966
 Frederick Albert Pottle
James Boswell: The Later Years 1769-17951984
 Frank Brady
The Hooded Hawk1946
 D. B. Wyndham-Lewis
The Moth and the Candle1984
 Iain Finlayson
Young Boswell1922
 Chauncey Brewster Tinker
Research edition: Correspondence
Title Author(s) / Editor(s)
Correspondence and Other Papers Relating to the Making of the Life of Johnson1969
 Marshall Waingrow
Correspondence of James Boswell and John Johnston1966
 Ralph S. Walker
Correspondence of James Boswell and Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo2022
 Richard Sher
Correspondence of James Boswell and William Johnson Temple (vol. 1)1997
 Thomas Crawford
Correspondence with Certain Members of the Club1976
 Charles N. Fifer
Correspondence with David Garrick, Edmund Burke, and Edmond Malone1987
 Peter S. Baker
Correspondence with James Bruce and Andrew Gibb1998
 Nellie Pottle Hankins, John Strawhorn
General Correspondence of James Boswell, 1757-17632006
 David Hankins, James J. Caudle
General Correspondence of James Boswell, 1766-17671993
 Peter S. Baker
General Correspondence of James Boswell, 1768-17691997
 Richard C. Cole, Peter S. Baker, Rachel McClellan, James J. Caudle
Research edition: Journal
Title Author(s) / Editor(s)
The Journal of His German and Swiss Travels, 17642008
 Marlies K. Danziger
The Journal of his Italian and French Travels, 1765-17662025
 John Eglin
The Journals in Scotland, England and Ireland, 1766-17692023
 Hugh M. Milne
Research edition: Manuscript
Title Author(s) / Editor(s)
Life of Johnson: An Edition of the Original Manuscript (vol. 1)1994
 Marshall Waingrow
Life of Johnson: An Edition of the Original Manuscript (vol. 2)1999
 Bruce Redford, Elizabeth Goldring
Life of Johnson: Manuscript Edition: Volume 3, 1776-17802012
 Thomas F. Bonnell
Life of Johnson: Manuscript Edition: Volume 4, 1780-17842020
 Thomas F. Bonnell
Boswell's own publications
Title Author(s) / Editor(s)
A View of the Edinburgh Theatre (1760)1760
An Account of Corsica (1768)1768
Critical Strictures (1763)1763
Dorando, A Spanish Tale (1767)1767
Elegy on the Death of an Amiable Young Lady1761
Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1785)1785
Letters Between Andrew Erskine and James Boswell (1763)1763
Life of Johnson (1791)1791
Observations, Good or Bad1760
Ode to Tragedy (1761)1761
The Cub at Newmarket (1762)1762
The Hypochondriack (1777-1783)1777
 Margery Bailey
Trade edition: Miscellaneous
Title Author(s) / Editor(s)
Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides1936
Portraits, by Sir Joshua Reynolds1952
Research edition: Miscellaneous
Title Author(s) / Editor(s)
Catalogue of the Papers of James Boswell1993
 Marion S. Pottle, Claude Colleer Abbott, Frederick Albert Pottle
Pride and Negligence1981
 Frederick Albert Pottle
Other Boswell-related literature
Title Author(s) / Editor(s)
A New Portrait of James Boswell1927
 Chauncey Brewster Tinker, Frederick Albert Pottle
A Walk to the Western Isles1993
 Frank Delaney
Boswell's Book of Bad Verse1974
 Jack Werner
Boswell's Books2016
 Terry Seymour
Boswell's Creative Gloom1982
 Allan Ingram
Boswell's Political Career1965
 Frank Brady
Boswell's Presumptuous Task2000
 Adam Sisman
Boswelliana1874
 Charles Rogers
Citizen of the World, Man of Letters1995
 Irma S. Lustig
Een Beytie Hollansche1994
Facts and Inventions2014
 Paul Tankard
Jemmie Boswell and the London Daily Press1963
 Lucyle Werkmeister
Letters of James Boswell1924
 Chauncey Brewster Tinker
The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age2019
 Leo Damrosch
The Treasure of Auchinleck1974
 David Buchanan
Who's Who in Boswell1935
 John Lucius Smith-Dampier
Boswell in Fiction
Title Author(s) / Editor(s)
Dr. Sam: Johnson, Detector1946
 Lillian de la Torre
The Brothers Boswell2009
 Philip Baruth
The Fall of the House of Thomas Weir2021
 Andrew Neil Macleod
The Stone of Destiny2022
 Andrew Neil Macleod